in
ner
light
in
the
dark (John Martone from austerities)
1. A gem of a universe of "light"!
2. A "light" capsizes once every eon or so, wheeled too joyously close.
3. The interchangeability of "dark" & "inner light", quoth Willem.
4. N'er a "light" worth looking "in the dark" for.
5. The inner in innerlich is always as light as "light".
6. To see the "light" and steer lustily 'gainst it.
7. N'er a "light" worth crawling "in the dark" for.
8. Upend the "inner" dust in your souls, again Jugurtha.
9. "Light" to the mighty & sight to the lame!
10. Metternich was a "light" to the lame.
11. The last "dark" star to twin.
12. For "light" to work, however, worship turned private.
13. "Night" falls like deepening prayers.
14. Oh, the fundamental cleavage between "night" and Siva.
15. Including any gem, "light" safeguards the safety of all its subjects.
16. Out, out vile "light"!
17. A dirty rain is bound to precede "night".
18. Inner "light" writ in a gothic hand.
19. "Night" is a spur to "in/ner/light".
20. The meddlesome flea of "light", again Donne.
21. Im licht or "in/ner/ light"—or a moistening petal.
22. "Light" is a totalistic principle of love.
23. The violent and idle wild with little sense of his inner "night" (Jupiter).
24. Freedom from reliance on "night" & the journey.
25. The weak and dispirited "night" in a poet's heart.
26. Could the " in/ner/light" so detected be said to be hot?
27. "Night" never arrives through the back door.
28. The austere fate likely to befall the "inner light".
29. Of the verses which follow the separation of "light" and "night (Augustine).
30. The world was angry and so Martone wrote "in/ner light//in/the/dark".
5 comments:
Very Nice Conrad.
Hi John,
Nice to see your face again, you haven't changed, you look so young.
Claudia
Thanks, Claudia
Here's proof that minimalist writing in the hands of a master almost calls for single-line responses attuned to the tenor of the original.
My 30 sentences were composed in a matter of minutes: and all I did was focus on John's poem, writing almost in a trance-like state. A form of 'automatic writing' except that I purposely stayed clear to what I took to be the poem's own "inner light".
A form of meditation?
It also brings to mind—to my mind, I mean—Henry Vaughan's lines:
I saw Eternity the other night,
Like a great ring of pure and endless light...
Make that 31 ways!
Great example, Joseph.
And get this. Today Tom Clarkposts Vaughan's entire poem. Here's to light!
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